{"id":415731,"date":"2026-02-09T04:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415731\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:42:10","slug":"alex-oxlade-chamberlain-excites-the-celtic-dressing-room-as-star-name-brings-key-trait-to-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/415731\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Oxlade Chamberlain excites the Celtic dressing room as star name brings key trait to title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sebastian Tounekti thrilled as the signing of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as high-level winner and England star joins champions\"Celtic<\/p>\n

Celtic unveil new signing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain(Image: SNS Group)<\/p>\n

Sebastian Tounekti reckons highest-level winner Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain can have a huge impact on Celtic\u2019s<\/a> bid for double glory.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old was unveiled at Parkhead prior to the extra-time Scottish Cup win over Dundee.<\/p>\n

Oxlade-Chamberlain <\/a>has sealed a deal until the summer having been a free agent since leaving Turkish side Besiktas in August.<\/p>\n

Capped 35 times by England, the midfielder has starred for Arsenal and Liverpool winning all of the major honours south of the border as well as a Champions League with Jurgen Klopp\u2019s Anfield team in 2019.<\/p>\n

Boss Martin O\u2019Neill<\/a> will assess Oxlade-Chamberlain\u2019s condition in training as he admits he could get a debut against Livingston on Wednesday as the Premiership title resumes.<\/p>\n

Tounekti<\/a> is excited by the prospect of having the experienced star as a team-mate and said: \u201cYes, he\u2019s a big name. He\u2019s a big player and won a lot. The Champions League and the (Premier) league.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really pleased to have him here. I think he will help us a lot on the pitch and off the pitch. So it\u2019s brilliant to have him here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added to the nous of serial-Celtic medal winners such as Callum McGregor, Tounekti was asked if Oxlade-Chamberlain could be pivotal in helping the team in their bid to get over the silverware line this term and replied: \u201cOf course. It\u2019s no doubt that we want to go far in everything we are in. I think we just have to focus on each game because, as I said, we have lots of games.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he will be an important player for us because he\u2019s a player with lots of experience. He has been playing at the highest level, so he will be really important for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celtic head back into the title battle with the game against Livingston after ensuring hopes of a Scottish Cup stayed intact with their dramatic win over Steven Pressley\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill\u2019s team toiled for lengthy periods and appeared to be heading out before rescuing the situation to scrape through in extra-time.<\/p>\n

\"Celtic's<\/p>\n

Celtic’s Sebastian Tounekti (C) celebrates with Benjamin Nygren, Luke McCowan and Junior Adamu (L-R) vs Dundee(Image: SNS Group)<\/p>\n

Although lacking in quality for spells of the contest, there was no shortage of resilience and desire to dodge the exit and Tounekti said: \u201cYes, of course we will fight until the end. I feel like we are a young team and we\u2019re learning and developing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to win every game, of course. We have a match like almost every day, so we have to just keep on going because every match is important when you have the logo of this team on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Tounekti thrilled as the signing of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as high-level winner and England star joins champions Celtic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[38776,2817,1669,218,49475,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-415731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-alex-oxlade-chamberlain","tag-celtic-fc","tag-champions-league","tag-football","tag-sebastian-tounekti","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}